Chapter 2

Noah:

It has been two days since that incident. It's Monday today, but also a public holiday, meaning that there is no school today. Though the only thing I wanted to do was to justify what I saw. I have no idea if what I saw was fictional or real. I did think that it was my mind playing tricks on me at first, but that opinion changed once I realised that imagining that was probably impossible for me. I have never seen a face in my life, so I wouldn’t be able to imagine something I've never seen, it’s like trying to create a new colour.

I did think I was getting my hopes up a bit high, but what I saw was unbelievable, so I have to make sure. Even though I can't see faces, I do know what most people I knew looked like, since I can't recognise people based on facial features, I observe other things. It is a better advantage that I have a good memory as well.

But I have never noticed this person in my school before. Though I definitely knew that this was the guy I acknowledged that Friday morning. Then it suddenly hit me, could it have been the new student? I hadn’t thought of that. It does make sense, but there are many students that I don't know of so there is probably a big possibility that I'm wrong. Then again, he did look the same age as me in a way.

It took me a few seconds to remember his name. “Was it Alex? Alex what though, I can't recall hearing his last name..” I said aloud. I've spent most of the day in bed, during the weekend I was busy with work so all I wanted to do was relax. Something that irritated me about first seeing Alex is that I didn’t run after him. I'm not sure why Alex ran away like that, I thought that he was maybe very shy, but there weren’t many other reasons I could think of.

At that moment, all I could do was just stare at him. It felt like I was stuck in place, instead of running after Alex, I held out one of my hands, as if I was trying to catch him. That was really the only thing I could move. After some minutes had passed, I just stood in silence. I was so shocked that I could barely think, let alone speak. So even though I didn’t do anything on Friday, I decided to try and see what was going on during this week of school. Hopefully I'll be able to talk to him.

So it was decided. If I was able to, I was going to try my best to talk to Alex, hopefully I'll be able to find him tomorrow. It was only 4pm, so I wrote in my notebook. This notebook is specifically for the study of plants. It has a picture and description of every plant that I have learnt about. Which is roughly a few hundred, this is surprisingly my second book like this. The first one got too full so I had to buy another. But I wasn’t anywhere close to finished with my knowledge, there are millions of different plants.

I looked through the notebook. I like recapping my memories, even though I know all of the information in it, I don't enjoy forgetting things. There were still a lot of pages left, so I needed to find more to learn about. I've learnt most things from the internet and teachers that I asked. It interested me, I thought that I should start learning about new plants again once I get enough free time.

Before continuing, I was brought back to the thought of Alex. I sighed as I closed my notebook and took off my glasses, I rubbed my temples for a bit. I knew that no matter what the consequences were, I wasn’t going to give up without any answers.